Animation drawing

It was an eight days animation drawing course .
What is animation drawing ? It is not something which we did up till now , they are the drawings which gives life to our characters . One of the most important part of animation course .

  

 So first day we were asked to do a very basic and important thing know as breakdown . Any complex shape which we need to animate can't be just animated the way it looks . It's a difficult task ! Also we might lose the volume and key features of our character while animating it . This would be a disaster not the animation which we expected . To avoid this we need to break the character into basic shapes like cubes , spheres ,cones ,tubes etc . These shapes are easy to rotate and animate also helps us to maintain the characteristics of our characters throughout the animation .

Next day we did some gesture drawings .

What are gesture drawings ? These are those drawings which expresses the action ,anticipation and the mood of the character WITHOUT drawing eyes nose mouth contour of the character . This is very difficult to understand and achieve and needs lots of practice . I have done these gesture drawings using wine charcoal . These charcoals are very good for portrait making but not for gesture drawings because they get erased very easily . To avoid this I applied fixative so that it can stay for longer time . 

These are some gestures which I did digitally just to save paper and keep  things look clean 😜 .

Next exercise which we did was taking any household object and drawing it in different angles so that when animated , it look rotating 360° on its axis . It took me like 2 hrs to make just 10 spoons . But the results were satisfying .

This is the spoon animation . This way we were familiar with our objects for the next task .

Then we were asked to use our gesture understanding to give life and emotion to our objects , in my case this spoon .

We were  asked to create our own character and make it in different views and poses in perspective .

My  character is a human spider whose legs opens up like spider . her jaw also opens up and she has 4 eyes .

Then we were asked to create a stopmotion  within the campus and so I did this . It took me 4 hrs to just draw all 17 frames .